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"Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them."
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Divergent
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Veronica Roth
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"It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free."
Veronica Roth
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"I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be."
Veronica Roth
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"I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled."
Veronica Roth
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"I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent."
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"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up"
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"I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different."
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"I only came for Cake" -Tobias Eaton, Divergent"
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"Who cares about pretty? I'm going for noticeable."
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"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."
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"When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea."
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"But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else."
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"A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy."
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"There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period."
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"Fine," he says. "Then I love you."
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"Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it."
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"Human reason can excuse any evil."
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"You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it."
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"I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest."
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"I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either."
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"I love you." He frowns. "Say it again." "Tobias," I say. "I love you."
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"If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward."
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"It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them"
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"I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though."
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"Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again."
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